Google’s smart TV software platform, Google TV, is poised for its first significant overhaul since it launched in Logitech and Sony hardware a year ago. Via over-the-air updates that should begin streaming to hardware devices on October 30, Google TV users will find new TV-optimized Android Apps, an improved YouTube experience, and new features that provide easy, direct discovery of TV and movie content. All this Googly goodness is wrapped up in a new user interface that aims to simplify a challenging information design—a design that has left many Google TV customers with a persistent sense of yuck. An inauspicious debut When Google TV launched, it was supposed to seamlessly co-mingle “live TV” (read: broadcast, satellite, and cable) with streaming video services like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Video On Demand. You could also use your Google TV software to search the Web, and even access digital content from your home network or attached storage. In theory: Fantastic. In practice: Difficult to use. Whether you were running a Google TV set-top box manufactured by Logitech or Sony, or directly tapping into the Google TV software installed in various Sony TVs, you were faced with a series of menus that defied easy… Read full this story
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